Mulberry is a very small city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 4,099 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Mulberry is the 309th largest community in Florida.Mulberry is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mulberry is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mulberry who work in business and financial occupations (12.00%), food service (10.82%), and sales jobs (10.65%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.97% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mulberry has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mulberry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mulberry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mulberry may be for you. Being a small city, Mulberry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Mulberry who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.38% of the adults in Mulberry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Mulberry in 2022 was $23,572, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,288 for a family of four. However, Mulberry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mulberry is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mulberry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mulberry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mulberry also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.21% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mulberry include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Mulberry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
